Who's heard Little Richard sing "Shake a Hand"?

I have always thought it amazing and wonderful the way another culture can open us to ourselves
Can speak what was here to fore unspoken and let us see it plainly for the first time.

I did know, But that knowledge laid buried in times layered
shadows, thanks for ringing it once more into the light.":O}

OH! How often has this very thought come to the fore in me!! LOL

Friend Ship

I had a friend who begged of me
"Would it still be heaven if they let me in?"
and he wept of his unworthiness

I consoled my friend with my heart
how then could I know heaven had been reached?
Or how should I ever find it
save by in the light that shines in your modest tears?

My friend clasped me to him and swore
should his flame die before mine
He would be constant at the gates
and weeping
until he has
seen me home.

So in this way we passed our time.
losing nothing while we gained each other.
each with certainty that one of us was blessed
and in that light we would share in the others shining confirmation.
DKE

Yet it remains the noblest of aspirations. With this we at least know what direction we wish to be heading in.

In my view, that difference is largely accounted for by the simple fact that the Brits were tripping to Muddy Waters while we were still trying to admit that Black talent was a thing.

American Without Tears
Elvis Costello
Outside in New Orleans the heat was almost frightening
But my hotel room as usual was freezing and unkind
On TV they prosecute anyone who's exciting
So I put on my overcoat and went down to find
In Revlon and crimpelene they captured my heart
To the strain of a piano and a cocktail murderess
She was singing that "It's Too Late", I agreed with that part
For two English girls who had changed their address
Oh it seems we've been crying for years and for years
Now I don't speak any English, just American without tears
Just American without tears
One had been a beauty queen and the other was her friend
They had known rogues and rascals and showbiz impresarios
While the boys were licking Hitler they had something to defend
From men armed with chewing gum and fine nylon hose
By a bicycle factory as they sounded the siren
And returned into the dance hall she knew he was the one
Though he wasn't tall or handsome she laughed when he told her
"I'm the Sheriff of Nottingham and this is Little John"
Oh it seems we've been crying for years and for years
Now I don't speak any English, just American without tears
Just American without tears
At a dock in Southampton full of tearful goodbyes
Newsreel commentators said "Cheerio, G.I. brides"
Soon they'll be finding the cold facts and lies
New words for suspenders and young girls backsides
Now I'm in America and running from you
Like my grandfather before me walked the streets of New York
And I think of all the women I pretend mean more than you
When I open my mouth and I can't seem to talk
Oh it seems we've been crying for years and for years
Now I don't speak any English just American without tears
Just American without tears
Oh it seems we've been crying for years and for years
Now I don't speak any English just American without tears
Just American without tears
Songwriters: Elvis Costello

If we give up our aspirations all that is left is to sink into convivial self indulgence.
We MUST aspire to and preserve the higher truths of life.

As they are the higher trues in time they will always rise above. This may take generations.
We might search in darkness for generations. We may stumble about in ignorance
We may war in our darkness and see children starved and abused.

But from these abused and mistreated children arises a call to arms.

We must try to remember in our darkens that "The sun also rises"

Just as the sun spreads light ever more widely as it rises.

Truth presses ever more deeply into our lives.
Almost nothing really worth while can arise in a single generation.

First the young must be awakened by ASPIRATION!
They must feel the coming change in their very bones.

When the new time is upon them
They will inspire us all.

This is not something that Evil can prevent for "The Sun does not just set upon the end of our days.

"The Sun also rises."

With a new time hard upon our thresh hold Let us be at our meat and drink be joyous and of good cheer.
Let us celebrate Mary Ann!



Sorry I looked but couldn't find the Original.

The inevitably of the Good.
Evil is simply the negation of the good. It creates nothing.
We aren't heading anywhere. We are manifest in this moment. How we manifest is not entirely out of our hands.

In all times ad in all places we are called upon to will the Good.
This we can do. But we don't have to. We can will the negation of the good.

What we can't do is will a different or other world. We only have this one.

We can submit to the needs of our world or we can ignore them in favor of folly and catastrophe.

Most humans live in their false conceptions of this world. always colored by desire always turning away from virtue. They cultivate fantasies which must isolate them as this world spins our reality and we partake of it or perish.

"The most delicate and fragile thing you will ever handle in this life is another man's fantasy."
(Paraphrasing C.G. Jung)

Because fantasy is not supported by reality. All evil is human fantasy which has no reality to support it.
But this world spins in a shining purity, free of all out evil, it none the less suffers from our evil.

Evil can destroy but evil can never win. For evil to exist there must first be a Good it can negate.

This world old beyond all reckoning was good before we were born and will be good long after we vacate.

Hot summer had just hit San Diego. there was a bored dullness shimmering its waves across the pavement.No one wanted to move so much as a finger.
Then the radio was turned on and the whole of summer shone brightly before us!

So what else ya got?

Not so long ago..